Josh Schonwald, MS

Josh is a Chicago-based journalist whose work has appeared in more
than 20 different publications, from The New York Times and The
Washington Post to Salon, Crain’s Chicago Business, and the Chicago
Reader.

A graduate of Macalester College and Columbia University’s Graduate
School of Journalism, Josh has received numerous honors for his
reporting. In 2007, his work was featured by Harvard University’s Nieman
Foundation for Journalism and he received the Florida Press Club’s first
place award for “Light Feature Writing” for his work at the Miami
weekly, New Times. He has also received awards for his sports, outdoors,
and agriculture writing, and in 2004, he was named a John J. McCloy
Journalism Fellow by the American Council of Germany.

In addition to his work for news organizations, he has worked as a
writer for the University of Chicago for several years, where he has
covered academic research in the humanities and social sciences for the
University of Chicago Chronicle.